stagnation
IPA: stægnˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Inactivity.
- The state of being stagnant, without circulation.
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Examples of "stagnation" in Sentences
- Medium term stagnation with product price inflation will be the result.
- A trend of less than a decade doesn't put us on an ineluctable path towards longer-term stagnation.
- After a period of long-term stagnation, wages only grew by 1.9 percent and there's no sign that will change.
- "However, action is needed urgently to tackle short-term stagnation and a lack of business confidence, damaged by the ongoing euro zone crisis."
- While it may work briefly, it destroys the incentive to innovate and ends up costing more and more in stagnation every year that it is implemented.
- Highlighting the gloomy mood in financial markets, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan warned over the weekend that the global economy faces long-term stagnation.
- Wage stagnation is the result of political changes that have made it possible for there to be huge concentrations of income at the very top, and rising health care costs.
- In his view of history, other developing countries heeded the "Washington Consensus" to dismantle every possible restraint on markets—and "ended up in economic collapse and long-term stagnation."
- The political rivalries of various kings and princes, as well as actual wars, the outbreaks of plagues, the incursions and invasions of the Muslims into European countries, along with a certain stagnation within European culture, such as an obsessive and sterile tendency toward speculation, and other, less important factors, heavily influenced Western learning and culture.
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